PERSONALS

Published 4:00 am, Friday, April 14, 1995

ONE SCORE AND NO YEARS AGO

Keeping up with the rage for marking the anniversaries of major events with commemorations bigger than the events themselves, the latest issue of Musician magazine is devoted to a musical benchmark: "20 Years of Punk Rock."

In 1975, when Patti Smith "opened her mouth on the first track of her first record and said 'Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine,' " says an introduction to an array of stories, "it was as if the roof had opened up and the future of rock 'n' roll was suddenly wide open." A year later, the Sex Pistols were reigning.

To give these events their due, the magazine quotes a selection of properly solemn punks on their art and its sources:

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Paul Weller of the Jam discusses his inspiration. "When I was 18 years old," he recalls, "I just wanted to be banged on the head. But you require other things when you get older. I don't know if sophistication is the right word, but depth maybe."

Billie Joe of Green Day speaks of the artist's environment, in a warehouse in Berkeley. "Half the house would be up on LSD, another part of the house would be up reading and another part of the house would just be drinking all night. Then it was 'All right, everybody! Three o'clock in the morning basketball! Everybody go!' And we wouldn't really get to choosing teams. We'd just start throwing it all over the place until something got broken."

"I don't make records to sell," says Sex Pistol creator Malcolm McLaren, sounding like Bob Hope pontificating on his 200th year in show business. "I make them for love."

-- LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

"The Nissan Quest has a total of 11 cupholders for seven passengers. That makes a cupholder-to-occupant ratio of 1.57:1, surpassing the Suburban's 1.25:1 ratio."

Letter to the editor of Car & Driver magazine, wherein boys will be competitive boys.

"I take offense at the statement 'So what if Goldberg has the mouth of a truck driver?' in your story 'Whoopi: Hollywood Big Wheel.' My husband has been a truck driver for more than 20 years and . . ."

Letter to the editor of McCall's magazine, wherein foul language is frowned upon.

BITE-SIZED BITS OF INFORMATION ON SALE HEREIN

-- The Victory '95 Committee of Omaha, which on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II is celebrating Nebraska's participation in that struggle, has reminded us that "the nation's largest canteen was located in North Platte, Neb., the railroad crossroads of the war effort."

The USO Canteen will be re- created in North Platte in August.

-- The subject of the 1995 National Endowment for the Humanities Lecture at the University of San Francisco at 8 p.m. Tuesday is the history of manners during eating and courtship. Psychology Professor Maureen O'Sullivan, described by the university as "a researcher in interpersonal relationships," will "outline historical trends involving etiquette in eating behavior and gender relations."

UNTWISTED SISTERS, SIDE BY SIDE

The Bay Area contributes four families: Midge Carter, whose sister is Dixie, lives in Marin County; Erin Turlington, sister of Kelly and model Christy, owns the San Francisco Up & Down jazz club; Katie Adair, sister of Julie and the late Charlene, lives in Walnut Creek; and Sister (a nun pun) Mary Glackin, sister of Sister Catherine, lives in Palo Alto.

"You ask me if I feel lucky that my sister is also a nun?" says Sister Mary. "No, I feel lucky my sister is my sister. That is what matters to me. That we both are nuns is only an added blessing."

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